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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]college isn't a daycare. I know some of you still treat your college age children like they are toddlers.[/quote]

either is your work, but they call family when you go to the hospital. [/quote]

Babe, ***the hospital staff do call your family when you go to the hospital, if you are listed as the emergency contact, and either your child says 'yes, notify,' or your child is incapacitated.***

It's not the university's place to make that call, because they don't have the medical authority to do so, the way the hospital does.

I know you really, really want to blame universities for the LEGAL LANDSCAPE, but that's pretty fruitless. [/quote]

The University is not a doctor, the doctor can not tell you why your child is there... but anybody and their mother can call you and say.... your child is on the way to the hospital.

I don't really, really, really want anything.

I think in a civil society, when somebody is taken to the hospital a family member is called.

My son had a boy shadow him at college and the boy had to go to the hospital, my son accompanied him and he called the coach and the coach called the parents and an adult went to the hospital ... even though he was 18 because we live in a civil society.

I don't think you understand the laws because you keep throwing them out incorrectly.[/quote]

What don't you get about this? YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED IF YOU ARE LISTED AS THE EMERGENCY CONTACT; YES, BY THE UNIVERSITY. That was never a question!

BUT the thing you people can't seem to understand is...*your son or daughter does not HAVE to list their PARENTS as the emergency contact.* And if they are up and awake and coherent, they can say, "Do not notify my emergency contact." If they are incapacitated, or they say yes contact my emergency contact, then you get the call. Yes, by the university.

But the university isn't going to pick up the phone just because you're the parents. If your son or daughter listed their elder sibling as the emergency contact, that's who is going to get the call, again only if they say "yes, contact my emergency contact" or are incapacitated. [/quote]

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